About
Welcome
The servers hosting my web sites reside on the lands of the following people, to whom I offer my love and respect:
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The Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation
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The Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.
You can learn more at the AIATSIS and Canada.ca sites. Thank you.
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My name is Ruben Schade, though I’ve been called Reuben Shade, Robbin Shuffle, and ReneΓ© Schultz. HOW!? I’m into retrocomputing, writing in coffee shops, anime, and reading stuff about things. My beautiful girlfriend Clara and I live for travelling, bubble tea, and drinking bubble tea while travelling.
I grew up in Singapore where I developed a taste for well-funded infrastructure, lah. Today I refill the coffee machines at OrionVM in Sydney and San Francisco, and may also do technical writing and client solution architecture. I’m also working up the guts to do more speaking and attend more industry events, especially for the fine FreeBSD and NetBSD operating systems.
Rubenerd has been my unfortunate Internet handle since I was 13; at the time I thought it was a clever concatenation. Now I think it’s delightfully self-deprecating, like my last name in German. Bagus! Wait.
The site
This is my weblog and podcast of things that have interested me since high school in 2004. It started as a silly hobby, but it’s become a way to meet friends, get work, be flamed, and how a cool person like yourself could cross my path. I’m grateful.
I publish an RSS feed for blog posts, and just for the podcast you can subscribe to. My Omake has way more details.
Dedications
This site is dedicated to the memory of these lovely people:
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Debra Schade, my mum and best friend who encouraged me to write and keep a journal; the advice that has set me up for life.
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Jim Kloss, the proprietor of Whole Wheat Radio who proved you could be in tech with kindness and a conscience.
Rubi the mascot
Rubi is the site’s mascot, conceived by Clara. Her mismatching, Miku-esque boots allude to my predilection for not wearing matching socks.
(Funny story, I was chided for wearing orange and red socks during a high school work experience day, with the implication that I wasn’t taking the assignment seriously. I’ve refused to ever since).
We agreed that Rubi was born in Sapporo on her birthday. Her favourite foods are shiroi koibito biscuits and curry udon, washed down with matcha and copious amounts of black coffee. These are burned off by trips to indoor pools and nature hiking in the snowy Hokkaido wilderness. She enjoys reading, cosplaying, and slice-of-life anime that may or may not have robots. Her dream is to start a line of self-heating swimsuits and towels, and tactical cargo skirts with pockets that can actually fit modern smartphones.
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Contact me
Thanks for taking an interest in my stuff. You can email me below:
printf "%s@%s.%s\n" me rubenschade com
I’m terrible at responding, but I read everything I receive.
You can also catch me on the following sites. Cheers :)